Supervisors in Bay of Plenty

Debbie has experience supervising individuals (counsellors, nurses, chaplains, mental health recovery coaches/support workers and counselling students) and facilitating small group supervision for 8-10 participants. Her areas of specialty include leadership, management in health, education and social service and workplace stress and burnout.

She generally uses a reflective and a developmental model in her supervision practice. Debbie believes effective supervision is about creating an environment (non-judgemental, warm etc.) in which the supervisee feels safe to engage in discussion about their practice and its impact on them.

Glen is a counsellor with over 25 years experience who works in the Thames/Hauraki region. She has taken an active role with NZAC and is currently a member of their Ethics team. She's interested in people's world views, their beliefs and their resourcefulness so we can work together in overcoming the problems they bring to counselling.

Huhana is an experienced cultural supervisor who also has experience in governance (understanding best practice, roles and responsibilities); management (contractual obligations and staffing, resourcing); crisis management; and facilitating improving teamwork participation.

Irene specialises in trauma therapy, emotion-focused therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy when working with clients. She provides professional, clinical and organisational supervision - both individual and group. She offers trauma-based supervision, working with complex cases and critical incident debriefs for supervisors and professionals working in the trauma field. Irene is an EMDR Institute facilitator/consultant who supervises staff in the social service field and therapeutic community.

Jenny is an experienced and knowledgeable therapist providing professional supervision, who is very attuned and empathic with her clients. She is dedicated to working with those who need help and support and is also open to seeking assistance when she needs new direction with a client.

Judy has been a supervisor since 2010. She enjoys guiding her supervisees in their personal journeys.

Dr Kent Smith is an experienced counsellor focused upon helping people change through interpretation of lived experiences and working with people to construct solutions to their contextual issues that are meaningful and useful.

Malcolm works closely with people's own knowledge in drawing out solutions to problems. He sees this as the key to client’s successes in moving forward.  

As a New Zealand-born Eurasian based in Tauranga, Mandy has gained understanding within a Te Ao Māori worldview while working within kaupapa Māori organisations. Her success in supporting staff working in our bicultural country (both Māori and non-Māori), helps positive engagements and healthy outcomes for our clients.

Mandy brings a combination of experience working within mental health and addictions, case management, dementia care, gender diversity and the LGBTQI community, domestic violence, and the education sector, as well as working with family issues and concerns, engagement and outcomes, and ethical or challenging issues. This, combined with a willingness to learn and remain open to changing contexts, helps Mandy to best engage and support staff and organisations.

With more than 25 years' experience working in the therapeutic field, Marieke has completed a certificate in supervision skills with the coaching and mentoring centre of NZ. She also trained previously as a clinical supervisor within the Department of Corrections Rehabilitation Services (2019).

Marieke supports professional development through a process of exploration and reflective practice conversations. Her aim is to provide a professional and safe space to ensure ethical safe practice, enhance knowledge and skills, grow self-awareness and assisting in developing a supervisee’s sense of professional autonomy and proficiency within their professional role.

Marieke works from a variety of therapeutic models, including Kaupapa Māori.

Marlene is a qualified clinical supervisor and is involved in offering supervision to colleagues and allied health professionals. She believes supervision is a forum to examine practice (esp. in terms of safety) through reflection, and a place to stimulate/facilitate ongoing learning.

Maryanne is a mature, professional supervisor with 24 years' counselling experience and 13 years' supervision in the health sector. Her areas of expertise are any addictive behaviours, trauma, stress and anxiety, and the underlying issues. She also has a good understanding of work dynamics and faith-related issues.

Maxine provides professional supervision to various business and health professionals. Using a strengths-based approach, she provides independent reasoning and support to those working in the areas of specialist practice, leadership and management in health and business environments.

With supervision skills for health and social service professionals, Michelle is available to supervise counsellors or addiction practitioners, either in person, online or over the phone.

Neil is comfortable providing supervision to individuals or groups working with a wide range of clients from many ethnic backgrounds and across all age groups. Neil counsels using an eclectic style, adaptable for the needs of specific clients. His practise is best defined by, 'Build the counselling relationship, identify the issue and make a plan so that the client can move on'.

Pauline has 30 years' experience that combines professional supervision, coaching, workplace leadership and wellbeing training, and EAP counselling. Along with this, she has consulted to numerous business owners, senior leadership teams and HR managers around all matters relating to staff wellbeing, workplace culture, as well as employee performance, transition, and career paths.

Pauline’s work across many sectors including government organisations, health, private corporations, social services and small businesses, is a solid backdrop for her expertise as a coach and supervisor. 

Pauline uses a pragmatic and easy style in working with clients that is informed by strengths-based practice. 

Supporting practitioners in both individual and group settings is Penny's passion. Providing a space to reflect, grow and learn together in a collaborative way supports supervisor and supervisee development. It places value on the work that counsellors provide and the clients they represent.

Phillip enjoys working with all the systems around the client and uses an eclectic approach of methods-depending on situation. He has a solution-focused, strengths-based approach and is trained in evidenced-based models.

Sandra has been a clinical supervisor for over 29 years. She supervises individuals in a variety of professions and has a strong belief in minimising the impact of both work and personal stressors on an individual's wellbeing. Sandra is an accredited international advanced trainer in trauma response and she also facilitates workshops and seminars for Vitae in the areas of stress and resilience.

Sandra has been on the receiving end of supervision for 10 years, including 1-1, cultural, peer and EMDR. She can provide 1-1 supervision for counsellors who work under the ACC ISSC contract, and for counsellors involved with EAP counselling. Sandra also supervised 4 students in 2020, and would now like to expand in this role.

Simon offers supervision and is a DAPAANZ-accredited supervisor.

Simon has been a practising social worker for 25 years. He has a masters degree in narrative therapy. His practice focuses mainly on adult and youth mental health and addictions and with people who have an intellectual disability. He is in the process of completing his doctorate.

Terresa began bicultural supervision in 2019. She created a framework model ‘Te Korowai O Te Tui’ based on Māori principles to provide support and develop confidence and skills for the kaimahi (supervisee), to help achieve positive outcomes for Māori whānau, hapu, and iwi with whom they engage. 

Terresa has experience in tikanga, to help support kaimahi within their fields of practice and own personal wellbeing. Terresa has experience in health and wellbeing, working for 20 years as a therapeutic masseuse.

Terresa is fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Tonia thoroughly enjoys providing professional supervision. Over time her supervision has been strongly underpinned by Inskipp & Procter (1995) educative/formative, administrative/normative and supportive/restorative. As Tonia has worked in many different environments and provided supervision in education and health, she feels she has a good understanding of the challenges that supervisees bring to supervision.

Veerle has been a clinical supervisor in New Zealand since 2000. She supervises different professions and occasionally students. Her training in systems oriented psychotherapy provides a broad systemic lens for looking at the wider contexts of the issues clients or supervisees present with.  Her practice is feedback informed: supervisees are given the opportunity to provide immediate feedback about the sessions to ensure they receive the most effective supervision.